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Music Under Stalin

Professor Marina Frolova-Walker · Gresham College

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The most outrageous Russian modernist composers of the 1920s were Dmitry Shostakovich in Leningrad, and Alexander Mosolov in Moscow. They were not merely following European avant-garde trends, and their work was genuinely pioneering. Russian culture was undergoing a vigorous renewal at the time, and these composers worked across several arts: Shostakovich’s absurdist opera The Nose extends the theatrical innovations of the celebrated theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold, while Mosolov’s 'machine music' embodies many constructivist ideas of visual artists and filmmakers.

Lectures

  1. Modernism Rampant: Shostakovich and Mosolov 2021-09-23 · YouTube
  2. How can music be “Socialist Realist”? 2021-11-18 · YouTube
  3. Shostakovich on Trial: from Lady Macbeth to the Fifth Symphony 2022-01-13 · YouTube
  4. Prokofiev the Soviet Artist 2022-02-10 · YouTube
  5. Soviet Music in World War II 2022-03-24 · YouTube
  6. The Year 1948 in Soviet Music 2022-05-19 · YouTube

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Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Marina Frolova-Walker
Year
2021
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
History, Music
Source
Gresham College
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